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In the hyper-saturated sonic landscape of 2026, the biggest "tell" of an amateur hybrid score isn't the quality of the synth patches—it's the spatial vacuum. Electronic instruments are inherently "homeless." They are generated in a dry, mathematical void. When you drop a bone-dry sawtooth lead onto a 60-piece string section recorded in a scoring stage, the synth doesn't just sound loud; it sounds disconnected. It sits on top of the mix like a sticker on a window. To fix the soundstage, we have to move past "reverb as an effect" and embrace Convolution and Context. We need to give the machine...